TestimonialYou can share one funny story you experienced during the week of the IPT or during its preparation. Or maybe what you think to have learnt from this tournament. Feel free to share your thoughts!

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Lausanne 2019

The best part of IPT is the people you meet. And when you talk about the problem you’ve worked on for a year, it’s really amazing.

Gothenburg 2017

I liked the opportunity to interact with future physicists from other countries, and the “physics fights” opened me up to more aspects of physics other than theories that I learn in class. Also, I’ve learned a lot about topics in physics that I won’t normally spend too much time in.

Gothenburg 2017

It’s a perfect way to exercise your creativity to solve problems and debate with peers. Plus, you get to know amazing people from all over the world.
I learned that there are many different ways to approach a problem, and by discussing them it’s possible to find a better solution to the problem.

Lausanne 2019

One time my teammate was testing a radio receiver she had built, while I was working with a tesla coil in the same lab. She was picking up a strange signal, with clear periods on several time-scales. We realised the receiver was picking up the noise of the tesla coil halfway across the room and was faithfully reproducing characteristic frequencies of the tesla circuit.
I think the lesson is: physical systems may couple in strange and surprising ways, which can both be a source of confusion and, with a bit of creativity, a source of new measurement techniques!

Moscow 2018

While working on the “Candle Lighting Trick” problem, we realized we had to maximize the production and “volatileness” of the smoke as well as canalizing it with a tube. So we made an hardcore candle-like thing using liquid paraffin as wax and a very thick wick; the whole thing was making flames about 20cm high and a hell lot of smoke after being blown. Using tube to canalize that smoke, we tried to relight it higher and higher, up to 1m! We had a lot of fun looking at the flame traveling through the tube burning the smoke. We can’t say the same for the safety staff.

Gothenburg 2017

Best part of IPT?
Interacting with colleagues, exchanging ideas and point of views for look into solutions to the same problem, taking into account aspects that were not previously considered.
Would I recommend it?
Yes, definitely. In my country we do not have such experiences like the IPT so having a first hand experience like this open your perspective about how to look physics research and how physics is in your everyday life.

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